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per ESPN:
Here's a crazy notion: the biggest game in football being played not in some tropical locale but smack dab in the Midwest.
It's true. The NFL on Tuesday awarded the 2018 Super Bowl to Minneapolis and its forthcoming new stadium. Minneapolis was one of three finalists, along with New Orleans and another Midwestern city, Indianapolis.
This development isn't groundbreaking. The 2012 Super Bowl was held in Indianapolis, and Detroit hosted the 2006 game. Sportswriters will no doubt grumble about the weather in 2018 and openly pine for a sunnier destination like Miami or San Diego. But Minneapolis is a great city and should provide plenty to do in the buildup to the game.
All of which leads to a larger point: If it's good enough for the Super Bowl, the Midwest ought to land a college football national championship game in the near future, too.
The new College Football Playoff system allows cities to bid on hosting the title game. The first three sites are predictably warm-weather spots -- Arlington, Texas, in January 2015; Glendale, Arizona, in 2016; and Tampa, Florida, in 2017. Minneapolis was the only Midwestern city to make a strong run at any of the first three games, losing out to Tampa. Which was disappointing, because other than the weather, Tampa doesn't compare to the Twin Cities.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/101216/playoff-should-see-midwest-as-super-too
Go Gophers!!
Here's a crazy notion: the biggest game in football being played not in some tropical locale but smack dab in the Midwest.
It's true. The NFL on Tuesday awarded the 2018 Super Bowl to Minneapolis and its forthcoming new stadium. Minneapolis was one of three finalists, along with New Orleans and another Midwestern city, Indianapolis.
This development isn't groundbreaking. The 2012 Super Bowl was held in Indianapolis, and Detroit hosted the 2006 game. Sportswriters will no doubt grumble about the weather in 2018 and openly pine for a sunnier destination like Miami or San Diego. But Minneapolis is a great city and should provide plenty to do in the buildup to the game.
All of which leads to a larger point: If it's good enough for the Super Bowl, the Midwest ought to land a college football national championship game in the near future, too.
The new College Football Playoff system allows cities to bid on hosting the title game. The first three sites are predictably warm-weather spots -- Arlington, Texas, in January 2015; Glendale, Arizona, in 2016; and Tampa, Florida, in 2017. Minneapolis was the only Midwestern city to make a strong run at any of the first three games, losing out to Tampa. Which was disappointing, because other than the weather, Tampa doesn't compare to the Twin Cities.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/101216/playoff-should-see-midwest-as-super-too
Go Gophers!!
